Aurélie Filippetti

Who is Aurélie Filippetti?

Aurélie Filippetti is a French politician and novelist of Italian descent. Her family originates from Gualdo, Umbria. Since 16 May 2012, she is Minister of Culture and Communication in the government of François Hollande.

Her first novel Les derniers jours de la classe Ouvrière, published by Stock in 2003, has been translated into several languages. In 2003, Filippetti wrote the script for the theatre production Fragments d'humanité. She was a delegate of the French Greens for the Paris municipality and acted as the technical adviser for the Minister of the Environment, Yves Cochet, from 2001 to 2002.

She is member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Moselle département, and is a member of the Socialist Party.

She is an alumnus of the elite École normale supérieure de Fontenay–Saint-Cloud, she received an agrégation in Classic Literature.